My schools gift to us

[Energycore]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Westminster California  basically the poorer side of Orange County 

Holy bananas, I really thought US schools were all expensive or bad. I guess I was wrong.

 

1 minute ago, dexxterlab97 said:

speaking of gift. no I am not giving that gpu for you

Not even a HD 5450?

[Guest]

Just now, Energycore said:

Holy bananas, I really thought US schools were all expensive or bad. I guess I was wrong.

 

Not even a HD 5450?

I will give you my HD 4600. I already have a 760. It seems an integrated gpu is no needed

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Energycore said:

Holy bananas, I really thought US schools were all expensive or bad. I guess I was wrong.

 

Our school scored pretty meh last year on our overall scores for state testing, then the district gave us a crap ton of money. We are also building a whole new pool for our swim team (which I am also on) 

[MoonlightSylv]

That's awesome, I wish my school gave us that  

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

Our school scored pretty meh last year on our overall scores for state testing, then the district gave us a crap ton of money. We are also building a whole new pool for our swim team (which I am also on) 

Splash Free!

 

Ah, so your school is spending the money they got on computers instead of good teachers?

 

I assume you're in junior year? I really don't see a reason why your classes would benefit from or even notice the increased performance of the new computers, which is why I say, grab that 512GB NVMe drive and keep it for yourself

[Canada EH]

Well when you put it that way. When you think about a product, you stole from Mother Earth to make it.

Another way to look at it, is it cost a company to make it.

So free to whom is the crux.

 

I would argue even the receiver of the gift, the gift is never free.

A computer well costs money to operate. Time. Pollutants. Plus I bet there is a hidden agenda behind it. Bill Gates maybe wanted a Tax break. Or another company. Maybe its a branding play. They want it set in the gifters mind that X is the best.

[DrMacintosh]

15 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Splash Free!

 

Ah, so your school is spending the money they got on computers instead of good teachers?

 

I assume you're in junior year? I really don't see a reason why your classes would benefit from or even notice the increased performance of the new computers, which is why I say, grab that 512GB NVMe drive and keep it for yourself

The teachers have actually been doing excellent! The normal level students (aka non AP/Merits) just don't care that much and they bring the rest down. All this new tech is the reward for us smart children  

 

except for the other 2 brand new computer labs that are Dell AiOs that have 256GB NVMe SSDs, 6500s, R7 graphics, and 8GB of RAM. 

 

Just because we scored meh, doesn't meant those scores were bad. It just means we get more funding  

 

Also, the class benefits from it because we are in that class to learn Adobe and become Adobe certified. Can't do that with old slow computers  

[Inkz]

My High School that I just graduated from this year uses all machines that were low end computers in the XP era... yeah that old. They just upgraded those old machines to Win7 because they had to, but they have the old hardware just this year...

[2FA]

3 hours ago, Energycore said:

Where do you even live?!

 

My school is free here, but our computer room is mostly Athlon II systems that run very hot and are anything but snappy

Probably not the same since it's a university but my school has a lab that is updated every summer with the latest hardware. I don't know the exact specs but I know they have 6700Ks. We also have Dreamspark, or shall I say Imagine, with many different OSes including Server 2012 for free along with many other professional tools that the school provides. My tuition is $0 because I got a scholarship from the state that pays all of my tuition as well as a $20k scholarship from the school itself. Between those two scholarships, I believe it totals somewhere around $45k. We also have a campus dedicated solely to nanotech which includes a fully functioning fab and is parterned with Intel, Samsung, I think TSMC though I'm not sure on that, Qualcomm, a few others as well and GloFo has their R/D center down the road from the campus. Actually a lot of the R/D that goes into new process types is done there. They just converted over to 300mm wafers and are working on 10nm as well as beginning on 7nm.

 

Congrats on the rewards that your school gave you OP.

[Magnetorheological]

Oh yeah? Well my high school had Dells with Celerons and integrated graphics. Let's see you beat that.  

 

Jokes aside, while our computers were crap, we did have a kickass Biotech department...and a couple years after I graduated, they built an entire new wing of the school dedicated to Biotech (I'm so not jealous  D:<). 

[Bleedingyamato]

3 hours ago, Energycore said:

Holy shit, those computers are at least worth $1000 each.

 

Steal one of them

A decent amount more if I'm guessing correctly.  Those shiny SSDs are going to be very pricey for that type and size.  The 6700Ks are around $330 or a bit more each.  

 

Also aren't Quadro GPUs crazy expensive?

 

So the overal total for each desktop will be certainly more than even $1000.  My guess would be around $2000.

 

 

[TheLaserCucumber]

Lol and we have old Fujitsu Siemens Machines with Core2 Duo's and 3GBs of RAM on Windows 8.1 Pro 32bit...

[Bleedingyamato]

3 minutes ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

Lol and we have old Fujitsu Siemens Machines with Core2 Duo's and 3GBs of RAM on Windows 8.1 Pro 32bit...

I'm so sorry to hear that...  I haven't used a Core2Duo since like about early spring of 2010.  That was when I got a laptop with a first gen mobile i7 extreme editon.  

 

Which I moved on from to my current desktop last January.

[Bleedingyamato]

9 minutes ago, Magnetorheological said:

Oh yeah? Well my high school had Dells with Celerons and integrated graphics. Let's see you beat that.  

 

Jokes aside, while our computers were crap, we did have a kickass Biotech department...and a couple years after I graduated, they built an entire new wing of the school dedicated to Biotech (I'm so not jealous  D:<). 

My high school remodeled a decent chunk of the building like the year after I left...  lol

[Magnetorheological]

1 minute ago, Bleedingyamato said:

My high school remodeled a decent chunk of the building like the year after I left...  lol

Hahaha, it feels bad right? At least for me, we were the first class to spend all four years in a brand new building at my school. All the years before had to spend some or all of their time inside portables.

[starwarsguy99]

3 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

My high school remodeled a decent chunk of the building like the year after I left...  lol

My school decided to build a new campus. Fine, thats great right?

It got delayed (cause they needed a high ranking official in the Government to sign papers) and now it opens the year after I graduate (if I make it )

[Bleedingyamato]

3 hours ago, Energycore said:

Holy bananas, I really thought US schools were all expensive or bad. I guess I was wrong.

 

Not even a HD 5450?

Depends on where you life.  The high school I went to was top notch.  Awesome teachers and everything.  

 

My freshman year the library aid told me they had money budgeted for new library books and to let her know if there was anything I was interested in that they didn't have.  

 

So one day I happened to mention that it would be nice if they could get some Indiana Jones books.  

 

Not long after that I went to the school library and she shows me she ordered the entire series of Indiana Jones novels.  

 

I read a few that year and then sort of forgot about them until my senior year.  I spent one of my study periods every day senior year mostly reading those books.  It was like book heaven.  ?

[Bleedingyamato]

11 minutes ago, Magnetorheological said:

Hahaha, it feels bad right? At least for me, we were the first class to spend all four years in a brand new building at my school. All the years before had to spend some or all of their time inside portables.

Just a little. lol  The building was already pretty decent imo.  

 

 

What's a portable?  

[Bleedingyamato]

11 minutes ago, starwarsguy99 said:

My school decided to build a new campus. Fine, thats great right?

It got delayed (cause they needed a high ranking official in the Government to sign papers) and now it opens the year after I graduate (if I make it )

At least it's still happening.

 

That's sort of like a high school near where I live.  The old building was really bad and messed up so they finally decided to tear it down and build a new high school building in the same spot.  

 

Now it's rather nice from what I've heard.

 

 

I'm sure you'll get through school if you focus on it and study enough.  You'd be surprised what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself and try hard.

[Bleedingyamato]

40 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Probably not the same since it's a university but my school has a lab that is updated every summer with the latest hardware. I don't know the exact specs but I know they have 6700Ks. We also have Dreamspark, or shall I say Imagine, with many different OSes including Server 2012 for free along with many other professional tools that the school provides. My tuition is $0 because I got a scholarship from the state that pays all of my tuition as well as a $20k scholarship from the school itself. Between those two scholarships, I believe it totals somewhere around $45k. We also have a campus dedicated solely to nanotech which includes a fully functioning fab and is parterned with Intel, Samsung, I think TSMC though I'm not sure on that, Qualcomm, a few others as well and GloFo has their R/D center down the road from the campus. Actually a lot of the R/D that goes into new process types is done there. They just converted over to 300mm wafers and are working on 10nm as well as beginning on 7nm.

 

Congrats on the rewards that your school gave you OP.

Is it ok to ask what state you live in that's so nice with scholarships?

 

I'd ask what college you go to but I don't want you to feel uncomfortable giving too many hints about where you live if you're worried about that.

[starwarsguy99]

7 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

At least it's still happening.

 

That's sort of like a high school near where I live.  The old building was really bad and messed up so they finally decided to tear it down and build a new high school building in the same spot.  

 

Now it's rather nice from what I've heard.

 

 

I'm sure you'll get through school if you focus on it and study enough.  You'd be surprised what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself and try hard.

Thanks for the motivation

[2FA]

8 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Is it ok to ask what state you live in that's so nice with scholarships?

 

I'd ask what college you go to but I don't want you to feel uncomfortable giving too many hints about where you live if you're worried about that.

New York but if you really wanted to, you could easily figure out the school based off of my description.

[kaiju_wars]

My university has a bunch of AiOs.  Everything has a Core i5 or better and at least 8GB of RAM.  For Windows AiOs, we have HP and Lenovo.

But a bunch of classes and the library have iMacs.  Not that I mind, since (IMO) MacOS is better than Windows. 

[Bleedingyamato]

49 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

New York but if you really wanted to, you could easily figure out the school based off of my description.

Idk if I'm that good of a detective.  ?

 

Thank you for telling me what state.  That's really lucky of you to get scholarships that entirely pay for your college.  Idk that I've ever seen ones that good.  Usually I just hear about the random small ones for like $1,000 or $5,000 or some other smaller amount.  Not ones that pay for eveything.

 

Do you mind if I ask how you got those scholarships?  Was it that you get really really good grades or something else?

 

 

 

Anyway, I don't want to hijack this topic too much more, would you be ok with me messaging you sometime to ask about your college degree?  

 

I'd be very interested to hear about a cyber security one.

 

 

[Energycore]

11 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

A decent amount more if I'm guessing correctly.  Those shiny SSDs are going to be very pricey for that type and size.  The 6700Ks are around $330 or a bit more each.  

 

Also aren't Quadro GPUs crazy expensive?

 

So the overal total for each desktop will be certainly more than even $1000.  My guess would be around $2000.

 

 

I made an equivalent in pcpartpicker.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($328.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 11 LP Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler  ($15.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($104.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($61.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($315.62 @ B&H)
Video Card: PNY Quadro M2000 4GB Video Card  ($436.97 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.89 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1344.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-28 12:27 EDT-0400

 

Quadros are funny, because you get the same processing power as a GTX 750 Ti for $400. I wonder if the workstation oriented features are worth the markup.